The organisers of the Get Connected Rali Bae Ceredigion, which will be Wales’ first closed road stage rally, have issued a warning to any competitor found driving the route on an illegal reconnaissance. The roads that will make up the four stages on the Aberystwyth University-based event, which takes place on Sunday 8 September, are widely known – and whilst they are open to the public to drive down at any time, by entering the event competitors are forbidden to drive down these roads. Any competitor who has cause to drive along a stage for whatever reason, be it their commute to work or to visit family or friends, must inform the rally organisers in advance – otherwise it will be deemed unauthorised practice, the penalty for which is exclusion from the event.

Jordan Ayew has completed his move from Swansea City to Crystal Palace for around £2m. Ayew – who the Swans were keen to offload as they continue to slash costs – has signed a three-year contract after spending last season on loan at the Premier League club. The 27-year-old Ghana international returns to Selhurst Park after featuring 25 times for Palace last season.

If you like your sport inspirational, and even humbling, then get along to the British Transplant Games which start today in Newport. The event features transplantees in a wide variety of sports from athletics to football and ten-pin bowling. Rob Cole tells some of the competitors’ stories. Wales has played its part in hosting many major sporting occasions – the 1958 Commonwealth Games, 1999 Rugby World Cup, 2010 Ryder Cup, 2012 Olympic Games, 2019 Cricket World Cup – and this weekend Newport will add to that illustrious list. While the world renowned events already mentioned are huge celebrations of sporting achievement, the Westfield Health British Transplant Games will be more a celebration of life.

Geraint Thomas has been hit by another blow in his bid to win a second Tour de France after the loss of his teammate, road captain and fellow Welshman Luke Rowe. Thomas remains in second place in the overall classification, but must race the final three days without his wingman after Rowe was sensationally thrown out of the race. The Team Ineos rider was disqualified by race officials for his part in a spat with Jumbo-Visma’s Tony Martin, who was also expelled.

Gareth Anscombe has revealed he left the Cardiff Blues to join the Ospreys because he wanted to be back at No.10. The Wales fly-half moved from the Arms Park to the Liberty Stadium at the end of last season after a protracted stand-off over a new contract following five years in the capital. Anscombe appealed against the new banding system for Wales players’ salaries brought in by the Welsh Rugby Union – arguing he should have been in the top tier – but after that was rejected on the basis he had yet to make a Lions squad he opted to leave the Blues and join the Ospreys.

By Liz Byrnes in Gwangju Georgia Davies was expecting a sleepless night after claiming her first world medal at the age of 28 as part of the Great Britain 4x100m mixed medley relay squad at the World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea. Davies has competed in four world titles but the nearest she had come before Wednesday night was fifth in the same event at the 2017 edition in Budapest.

The Football Association of Wales today unveiled its new re-branding package as part of its plans to closer align the top two tiers of the domestic game. The Welsh Premier League will now become known as the JD Cymru Premier while the two feeder leagues – formerly known as the Cymru Alliance and Welsh League […]

The New Saints 0, FC Copenhagen 2 Managers Scott Ruscoe and Stale Solbakken had differing views on a critical moment during the Uefa Champions League tie at Park Hall. The Danish visitors were 1-0 ahead when Austrian Alexander Harkam awarded a penalty against Cymru Premier League champions TNS on the hour. Defender Keston Davies was […]

Former Cardiff City defender Jazzi Barnum-Bobb has signed for National League Wrexham on a one-year. Right-back Barnum-Bobb joined the Bluebirds from Watford and later played for Newport County. He has been training at Wrexham since the start of pre-season and has impressed, featuring against Cefn Druids, Fleetwood Town and AFC Telford United. Enfield-born Barnum-Bobb, aged […]

Zoe Backstedt hailed her gold medal at the Baku 2019 European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) as the best of her career so far. The 14-year-old cycling sensation powered her way to victory in the girls individual 10km time trial – two years after older sister Elynor won time trial bronze at the same event in Hungary.

Under-18 football: Cardiff City 1, AFC Bournemouth 2 Fast and silky raider Siyabonga Ligendza caught the eye for Cardiff City during their under-18 pre-season match against AFC Bournemouth at Cardiff International Sports Stadium. Wales junior international Ligendza, who played for Talycopa AFC in Trallwn, Swansea, before joining the Bluebirds is gaining a reputation as a player […]

Former Bluebirds Dave Jones and Paul Wilkinson are set to join forces again – and take on arguably the toughest job in British football. Jones was Cardiff City manager for six years, while ‘Wilko’ was a club coach under Lennie Lawrence and stayed with the club. Now Wilkinson has been appointed manager of League One […]

by Matthew Burgess At 12/1 outsiders, The New Saints are going to need to an upset of Connah’s Quay proportions if they are to upset Danish Superliga champions FC Copenhagen in their first-leg tie at Park Hall this evening.  In the aftermath of the Nomads’ famous and soon-to-be folklore win over Kilmarnock, Saints’ own unlikely […]

Cardiff Devils fans will enjoy two Scottish double-headers during their 2019-20 Elite League campaign. Head coach Andrew Lord and his Devils play Fife Flyers and Dundee Stars on successive nights during November, while they head north of the border again the following month. On the second trip Cardiff will play Glasgow Clan and Fife, again […]

The bad luck that has impeded Seb Morris in this year’s British GT Championship continued at Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium on Sunday, when two penalties and a tyre blow-out on his Bentley Continental GT3 ruined any hopes of a champagne-spraying podium finish. With his JRM team-mate Rick Parfitt Jnr having to serve a stop/go penalty early in the 120-minute race following contact with a Lamborghini, a second penalty had to be served during hour two after officials deemed the mid-race pit-stop to have been fractionally too short. Incredibly, a puncture with around 20 minutes to run added real insult to injury and necessitated a third unscheduled stop. Wrexham-born Morris eventually went on to take the chequered flag in an exasperating 12th position.

By Roy Cavanagh MBE Newly-formed Bangor 1876 played their first ever match when they took on FC United of Manchester at Broadhurst Park. The fan-owned Gwynedd League club were followed to Manchester by more than 800 fans and simply playing this fixture was huge. Their supporters celebrated wildly when Ben Lundstram, who came through the […]

by Owen Morgan Athletics fans will get the chance to see the next wave of emerging Welsh talent take on the rest of Britain’s best at the annual under-20s international match in Cardiff this Wednesday evening. With Jeremiah Azu, James Tomlinson, Sarah Omoregie and Remi Adebiyi all having reached their finals while representing Great Britain […]

by Owen Morgan Osian Perrin broke the 42-year-old Welsh Under-17 3,000m record at the Schools International Athletics Board (SIAB) meeting at Swansea. The Menai Bridge youngster clocked a time of 8:23.64 as he finished just over half a second behind England’s Will Barnicoat in the international match between Wales, Scotland, Ireland and England. Perrin’s time […]

Mark Richardson is unique in Devils’ 33 year history – the only player to have competed in all three of their home ice rinks. ‘Richy’ signed for Devils in the season before Cardiff’s Wales National Ice Rink was closed, while he has also played a major role at the Big Blue Tent and Viola Arena. […]

Damian Cole has extended his lead in the Protyre Motorsport UK Asphalt Rally Championship to 32 points, after a fantastic drive on the Carryduff Forklift Down Rally. The Abergavenny driver started a little too cautiously on a very wet and slippery opening stage, but after that he flew over the fast and bumpy closed country lanes of Northern Ireland in his Get Connected/Energizer-backed Ford Fiesta WRC. Co-driven by Paul Spooner, Cole couldn’t quite regain all the time he’d lost on the first stage to John Stone (Fiesta WRC), but second place points strengthens his title challenge.